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Congee Recipe

May 15, 2007 17:23

Does anyone here have a recipe for congee . I tried to make it today and it turned out very poorly. I was mostly winging it since I can't find a good recipe online and I botched it royally. The consistency turned out okay but I think I over spiced it or something. I'm especially looking for a brown rice congee recipe ( Read more... )

brown rice, rice

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mktgurl May 15 2007, 23:36:38 UTC

Brown rice congee just has a longer cook time, if you're starting from uncooked grains.

I posted a catch-all congee recipe on LJ a while ago, it's here:
http://community.livejournal.com/food_porn/2318309.html?view=24306149

I see that it's rather recent, maybe in the last half decade or so, that the thousand-year-old eggs are now called century eggs. I prefer the old name.

autumnmist May 16 2007, 00:25:23 UTC

Yeah I was like "what is a century egg"

Dunno, my family (Chinese) calls them thousand-year eggs.

sandramort May 16 2007, 04:41:27 UTC

glad I wasn't the only one confused. WHy'd they change the name?

mktgurl May 16 2007, 16:46:17 UTC

Probably for marketing reasons.. Would consumers be eating the Chilean sea bass into extinction if it were called a Patagonian toothfish?

phxgreenfire May 15 2007, 23:42:50 UTC

Ick... they gave me that when I was suffering from bad nausea in Korea and it was the last thing I wanted, so I stopped eating :(

But if you're really interested, I've seen it with thin slices of carrots, cucumbers, some Korean vegetable and flakes of dried seaweed. I've also seen it with abalone and also beef.

mktgurl May 16 2007, 16:47:52 UTC

Pretty much the only way to destroy congee is by heating or re-heating it on a stove setting higher than low-medium. Rices and starches burn quite easily if you try to reheat it on a medium-high fire.